Rumours spread this week in Bentiu that Southern Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon was on his way there to talk to Governor Taban Deng Gai who was said to be ‘leading a revolt' against the GOSS...
’ The problem with this claim is that the NCP has armed anti-Sudan People’s Liberation Movement fighters since at least 1991 when Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and Lam Akol Ajawin broke with the SPLM and the NCP was still the National Islamic Front...
Lam split from the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in 1991 with Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon but is now theoretically at peace with the SPLM (AC passim)...
In the fighting that ensued Athor attacked Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon’s breakaway SPLA-Nasir faction commanding forces loyal to the SPLA leader Colonel John Garang de Mabior under the leadership of Lt...
Athor was furious when Riek Machar (now GOSS Vice-President) rejoined the SPLA in 2002...
The presidency will not be contested says a source so Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon a Nuer leader who led a rebellion against Colonel John Garang in 1991 and later collaborated with what was then the National Islamic Front regime should remain Vice-President until 2017...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 5 |
- SUDAN
- CHINA
At China’s Juba consulate Jiang held separate talks with SPLM Vice-Chairman Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (and GOSS Vice-President) SPLM Deputy Secretary General Anne Itto (Agriculture Minister) SPLM Politburo Senior Member Deng Alor Kuol (Minister of Regional Cooperation) and Education Ministry Under-Secretary George Justin Achor...
The French major has hung on since 1980 winning a 2008 legal battle for ownership after Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon awarded the concession to Britain’s White Nile owned by Philippe Edmonds (AC Vol 48 No 12)...
South Korea’s Make Group which invests heavily in West African mining and building met Riek Machar in July...
This puts the man who has been one of the most prominent advocates of the ‘New Sudan’ in the lead over the CPA and is a serious blow to Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon co-chairperson with Ali Osman Mohamed Taha of the national committee overseeing the CPA...
When Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon split the SPLM in 1991 Athor who was serving under him led loyalist forces against him in the fighting around Bor...
More recently Taban’s forces clashed with supporters of his cousin Angelina Jany Teny (wife of GOSS Vice-President Riek Machar) who had unsuccessfully stood against him for governor...
* Also furious is Angelina Jany Teny national State (Junior) Energy and Mining Minister and former Southern First Lady (when her husband Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon headed the pro-NCP Southern government in the mid 1990s)...